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Place Of The Civil Service

In The New Britain

The problem of civil service manpower must of course be considered against the econo- mle background. On the sur- face our economic situation is changing very fast, but beneath the surface que problems re mais much the same. In fact more of our difedities spring from our unwillingness to see ourselves defeated in the peace after having been victors in the war. Our victory cost us: dear and will go on handicapping us heavily for years.

and

"Inevitable"

By MR. HERBERT MORRISON

may add, in the way in which its servants any things. I cannot miss this

oppor- tunity of saying some things I have long wanted to say about It it in to raise our productive the British Civil Service. capacity and efficiency to the does not wear a-uniform like highest point. This objective other services of the Crown! of increasing resources must and the work of the individual take priority for the time he civil servant la inconspicuous. ing over all the objectives of and anonymous. There is very raising requirements, whether rately any occasion when it for social services, or consumer comes

up for special public goods, or even desirable forme notice. In the past a lot of of investment. While we must people, some of whom did not carry on all our national activi- want the Civil Service to take tien as best we can, the main

on too much or to build up a priority must be given to ex- record of successful Slate ac

of

CARNIVAL

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COPP, 1947 BY MEA KPAVIT, ING. T. M. RED. LI, B. PAT, OFF,

"He's local-I'm long distancol"

BARCLAY ON BRIDGE

if we were prepared to ac- cent a lower standard of life and to give up many of our

cals and to renounce a great£randing the capacity of ption, took every opportunity of part of our responsibilities in economy to meet requirements running down and abusing the Pe world. it would not be so of all sorta.

Civil Service, Anyone who The suggestion that the Paris very difficult to deal with our

For this purpose wo must, saw, as I did at the flome Of Conference

discuss s the economic situation. We would above all, be able to ascerinin fice and Ministry of Home American offer of support to

Just see what resources happen- and to secure the best distribu- Security and at Supply, the l to be avaliable to us 'and use tion of manpower. However way the Service stood up to Įte juint kutopeary teconstruction them as best we could, hoping successful we may be in other wartime tasks can only admire (plan is itcrdonamed to failure is that they would increase, but directions, If we fail to recruit its grent spirit and its Immense

disappointing if not altogether un-not making any concerted of enough coal-miners in the pits capacity.

fort to increase them. Then and textile workers in the milia As you know, all sorts expected. How great and urgeht we would have to cut our an- and agricultural workers on thi precautionary plans were made is the need is revealed by Dr. [cial services ands our overseas land, all our other efforts are against the danger that the Dalton's gloomy statement to the responsibilities.

accept dramed to frustration. How Civil Service might find it im heavy unemployment and aever dark our import position possible to enrry on from House of Communs announcing wretchedly poor diet and in this, it is the lack of home pro Whitehall. Even in the worst cuts in petrol, tobacco, filman and way we could struggle along duged fuel and clothing and days of the biitz it was never newsprint imports, and warning dictate our actions.

letting the economic situation building materials and food- necessary to puf these plans.

stuffs which cause the greatest inta effect. Bombs mitglat that fondstuffs may come next on

stringency foday. and

thiene rain down, Government. De- the list is the face of Britain's

shortages go back partly to the pariments, such as the Trea- That, after all, is what any fact that the Government did eury and the Admiralty, might rapidly diminishlog dollar Government before thin War

not feel justified in directing suffer direct hits, and trans- | zutarves. It that represents Bri- would have thought

natural people into these under-mauned port and communications might and inevitable. It was done industrica after they had been be disrupted. It sti Hia. Ma tain's plight, how much graver is most drastically after 1918 and stripped of able-bodied man-jesty's Government was carried that of several of the countries of again in 1931, but that is not

power during the war. The on and the flow of instructions. our way now and any Govern fact that men are now pouring and background continued to Extrope? Yet if any surprise is ment which agught to take that into the mines about as fast every part of the world in felt at the difficulties which 31. way would, find the

more, so ruffed the club 9 with gap be as they can be absorbed, con- which our war effort was being

and tween our national requirements Arms once more that democracy made.

the dummy's last pade Moluroy has hitherto placed in and our currently avallale re can get the right results ni-

easily took all but one of the re- the way of Russo-French-British sources impossible to bridge by though it

"THERE MUST have been a mainder with the ruff of a dlh- little may take n cooperation itt

In many places Civil Servants revoke, or possibly a couple of mand, three high trumps, tỷo formulating A

any acceptable means. What longer at the outset to get go-

a type of comment heart leads including one ruffed Tired to be called living within ing. But this is not a matter on their official dutien came un them" la programme, it is rather that the our means, cutting our coat to of exhorting people to go into and overseas. In spite of the duplicate game as they look at a trump.

der enemy fire both at home often heard by players in aby East and then the Inst' with Dovier Foreign Minister bothered suit our cloth is simply not the pits or the mills. It in-

The neoro slip then showe to travel from Moscow to Paris practicable in the short run for volves the redeployment of the Yerantility which was shown by the travelling score slip of a in order to be obstructive than this country. It would be mul- labour force an that everybody the Service daring the war deal on which one particular re- that one-4-Spaile contractor-go! "cold" à notice set two tricks? Inquiry alios- that he should find himself in cide for us and it would be ruin is employed to the best advant think few people even yet, bave nult seems

score at how that crazy result/de- any idea how varied are the that some unbelievable disagreement with Mr. Bevin. to the world. We must. there-age, and so that by a necessarily performed by the Civil has come nr another table. Or- veloped. The club Kwon the Actually, the malines of the two for, go the opposite way about complicated process what may Service and how many of them dinarily they try to figure out first trick...then declarer tried procedure proposals reveal it. We must set about making seem to be irrelevant manpower involve qualities very different how it could have happened, to set up hearts by taking the

enough cloth for the cont savings in one part the coun- substantial amount of coniunt which we think will fit us. To try or in one branch of the from those which are from time) then after the play get hold of A and K, intending toʻriff the ground, and unfortunately when

courages

confidence,

and the greater the effort the more organisation is needed, and in modern conditions more organisation means more gov ernment.

It is no use having illusions

the desired results..

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Very Different

practical

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By Shepard Barclay

The Authority on Authorities" -

NO REVOKE NECESSARY

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M. Multes insists, upon

quarters. In fact, just, us be the unusual outcome was re- second heart, fed to the diamond clarer definition of the extent of

fore the war there were those corded. Usually they find that K and the heart D was ruffed the proposed American aid, be has

The Skeletons

who used to depict all scientists either brilliant work by one side by the apache J. North scored | much to support his argument. It

absent-minded or unsoundncas by the other the club. A and led, the 4 to ruf You will see that in discuss. as long-haired, is one of the great weaknesses of

any caused the bizarre development. with the spade 6, which West ing the economic background professors incapable of

contribution. until

overbial. The heart. 10-waa it is impossible to get far from the American system that the

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returned. North ruffed with Executive can

never be sure of about. this. Any person or the insks of the Civil Service, those same scientists came out

H+B 4 in the front rank, of, war win-

the spade 8 and was over-ra/T- bucking from the Legislature, and group who asks for more of What a change has occurred

ed by the 10. East, then re- almost anything in the post- since Gladstone's day. In neral so some people still go on the statement of Mr. Snyder, of

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turned his spade 3. taking out war circumstances of Britain those times the world seemed trying to depict the Civil Ser

5.10732 dummy's last trump and natur the U.S. Treasury, that

nois in fact asking for more gov-large and ample and slow mov-

vant as a narrow minded timid SQ financia! commitments have even ernment. The classical 'condi- lag.

ng the defence a fifth trick bureaucrat. It simply isn't HQ 1097 N Even the skeletons were

The club 10 over. North's.9. been mentioned, scarcely entions in which more could be kept in roomy cupboards from true.

DAK 5431 Never got by the free play of

I could go on giving the which they only fell out one or theless, to two courses are open, market have ceased to operate two at a time, not like nowa and more examples of Board C Q7 if Al. Molotov refuses, on behalf for us for the time being. It days when every imaginable round the clock to get the Bri

of Trade stafs working right of the Soviet Government, to co- is no use people Baking för skeleton-international and do- operate, those parts of Europe services or more coal or more firmly dragged out of its cup-

more houses or more health mentic; economic or social is tish Industries Fair ready in which can do so must give the clothing without being prepar; board and put on the Cabinet/ or the commando exploits per-| hest answer they can to Amerised to face the fact that they are table to add to the heap already formed by Ministry of Agricul- vulnerable.) without Russia and her European asking for Government inter- there. Then again, until 1014, ture officers during the recent sarellites. The Foreign Ministers vention. That should not fare to meet again, and it will then forgotten, but we must not for- he possible to judge whether get either that jobs which are Russia really is so decided to laid upon the Government ma- abandon collaboration she chine must be carried out with FOUR ENGINED SKYMASTER SERVICES sent the economic field, far maximum efficiency, energy, and

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Japan's Plea For Assistance

be money was virtually the only floods, but I think I have given

1 S method of control both of the enough examples to show that

3 S entire economy and of the the Civil Servant today is a

A S operations of government itself. very different type 'from the The Civil Service existed to re- caricature of him which still East led his club.J, which the gulate with intelligence, in- pope that some day these peu A, ruffed the 4 with the spade pops up in some quarters. K van. North led to the club mure than, in the political, East | economy.

tegrity and accuracy a relative- and West have comman needs.

ly small though

ple will catch up with realities G and saw West over-ruff with widening which I am glad to see they the Q. The diamond Kwon It does not follow therefore that The more people ask for in fringe of functions which were have done in the case of the and the A was ruffed) by the because at the moment Russia is relation to resources, the more admitted to belong to the State scientists--but if they are go- spade 4. North reckoned that How valuable do you rate the

strain is thrown on the whole conducting a political offensive Government machine. We have tered, post-war world,

Now, in this shranken, bating to catch up they had better West's failure to return a singleton kings of North and

things she will reject this opportunity of to try to translate the innumer: moge terrifyingly swiftly. Pro lane no time.

trump indleated he had no South during the Bidding? economic assistance merely because able requirements of the Bri- blems multiply and each runa she cannot get it on her own tish people into workable shape into and modifies the next one. terms. On the face of things, so far as they involve govern- In addition to money we have insofic as they have been disclosed, ment. We have, then, to try to many alternative and over-lap- an accommodation of viewpoints find additional resources to ping controls over construction should not defy arrangement. In meet the very large fraction of and materia's and, the right to su complicated a matter, it does not be met out of the resources

these requirements which can engage in specific activities.

All this means that the Civil not seem to matter vitally whether immediately available. It is a Service needs not only to keep the organisation to state the needs thankless task always to be cut- all its traditional qualities, but and plans of Europe is given the ting people down, rationing, to acquire a whole lot of new title of "Steering Committee" or controling and regulating. We ones, We still need a Cava "Assistance Committee" so long all want to see the emphasis Service which can hold the ring as its essential functions are put the other way, on an ex- and see' fair play in industry, satisfactorily understood. All panding economy and more but we also want a batt'o-win- He said the Japanese nation | commercial relations with Japan | reparations question nor tớ gc- that really matters is that the chow room all round. Some ning spirit in the Service, in had been demilitarized and wan an alding Japan's recovery. „At cupation problems after the expressed peace treaty was signed —Unit- question which General Marshall people argue that the very fact we need the ability to go making progress toward de the same time, he has posed should be answered existence of controls and ra- into the ring and seize the mocratization. He also said the hope for spiritual and economiced Pruss. quickly and in a. form that will discourages economic, recovery the country is rightly waiting tioning damps down enterprise, initiative in many fields where convince Congress of the construc-and tends therefore to par- for Government leadership to tive character of the auswers, petuate controls. It is for the become visible In · administra- Time presses, not only because the Government to prove this argu-tion. In a planned economy the economic clouds are mounting up, ment to be unfounded.

Civil Service has a managerial but, also because next year the. We can already claim-large-function. Whitehall is a great American people will be immenly through that new branch of head office of business enter- sely preoccupied with their intlon Services--to have awaken branch offices, directly

the Civil Service; the Informa-prise with a whole host of ternal affairs in view of the ed the nation' as never before directly dependent upon it. The or in- Presidential elections. The sooner to the need for production, the Civil Service must adapt itsolf

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gress the calmer will be the efficiency, and teamwork' In atmosphere in which it is heard. economic affairs and to the Again, the British people Speed and conciseness are the rightful status of the workers have a view of the State which essence of an effective response by (who like us are doing csuch a very different from that held Europe to the American offer. tial jobs, but many of whom, in some parts of Europe. Our Both Mr. Bevin and M. Bidault unlike us, have to get their State in "not an Impersonal have shown that this is fully handy and faces dirty). The superior Btate which bas A grasped in Western Europe, and nation is now aware of what right to do things to us. It is they should be prepared to pro after V. J. Day, or even a year selves as a group of human be faces It, na It was not aware simply on expression, of Our ceed, with or without Russia. It ago. That is a big gain, beings trying to do things-to- would be better that Russia joined cause history shows that when gather in a fair and orderly

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Tokyo, July 1. Premler Katayama, address ing the Diet today, exprese the hope that the peace confer ence would be held as soon as possible, adding that the peace treaty would be the "dawn" of a-now era.

Japanese people hoped they addietance from the Alfed no- could return is the world family. tione. of nations as soon as possible. He devoted a great

portion of and contribute to permanent his speech to admitting tho na- world peace.

tion's economic difficulties, nak, ing the nation's cooperation In In this connection, Katayama] support of the government welcomed SCAP's decision re-economic programme. garding private, infernational He made no reference to the

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